Real Life Team Building

Posted by jhon | Education | Monday 10 November 2008 12:25 pm

This website about projects built through teambuilding seems to be sort of a unique exercise. The website, http://www.teamleadership.org, has a sort of homemade, kitschy feel to it, probably because it’s an amateur site, created by people who took a Landmark Education Programme called Team Management and Leadership, but are just regular people who don’t have an affiliation with the company.

Indeed, rather than all the stories written by one blogger, each individual who took this programme shares their experience. Each person appears to have created a project called “a team game in the world,” which is some sort of community project that requires a team to fulfill it. Projects on the Team Leadership site include fundraisers for children in India, art projects for prisoners, spotlighting the contributions of immigrants, conservation projects in the Pacific Northwest and dozens more miscellaneous projects on a huge variety of topics.

A great many of the projects can also be seen on YouTube - If one goes to that website, many of them can be found under the channel ‘TMLP Times’. It seems that in some cases the creator(s) of the Team Leadership website took videos and made them into stories for their blog.

In all, the assortment of projects is impressive and inspiring. Most ‘team building’ websites give general advice; few provide a wide range of real-life examples undertaken by an assortment of ordinary people. Although the layout of the site appears quite plain, the thought behind it is not: Start with column on the right side of the main page titled recent posts, and explore for yourself what this site has to offer. There is also an email subscription offer for those who want to be notified about new posts, which seem to come about once per week.

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